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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 12, 1996
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electric power generating apparatus having an electric generator is mounted on a hybrid vehicle which has a propulsive electric motor powered by a battery and an internal combustion engine for actuating the electric generator to generate an electric power output to charge the battery. A goodness-of-fit calculator and a generator operational amount calculator determine an operational amount for the electric generator based on a membership function and fuzzy rules stored in a fuzzy reasoning memory according to fuzzy reasoning from vehicle operating conditions including a charged and discharged condition of the battery and a vehicle speed of the hybrid vehicle, detected by operating condition detectors.